<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Hey Chris,
<p>I certainly have thought about animated skins. Look at <a href="http://www.skinz.org/skins.php3?login=&id=&area=wb&start=6&sort=created&order=desc&catagory=&display=5">Liquid</a>
for an example. It should not be hard to do that sort of thing with
Morphic since there is already a "heartbeat".
<p>The bigger win right now would be to find a way to import from some
standard skins definitions and reduce the Squeak code required as well
as the detail work to get the Forms right. Currently the Blue Curves
example is fairly well factored and extensible framework. Wouldn't
it be cool extend the design to import and support skins on the fly?
<p>A large part of this experiment for me was just to see what could be
done. I just wanted to see if Squeak tools could look sexy.
<p> - Steve
<p>"Norton, Chris" wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi Steve & friends.
<p>This stuff looks great! [at least the .JPG does... I'll
try out the skins
<br>on my personal time...]
<p>Have you given any thought to creating animated skins? Browsers
that
<br>shimmer, pulsate (like a beating heart), psychedelic color patterns,
<br>dripping stone (like La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona), Morphs that
randomly
<br>flip when they are not in use, etc?
<p>[...right about now you're probably thinking I had an illegal lunch...
<br>Actually, I'm weird like this all of the time! :-o ]
<p>Cheers & thanks!
<p>---==> Chris
<p>> -----Original Message-----
<br>> From: Stephan B. Wessels [SMTP:stephan.wessels@sdrc.com]
<br>> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 11:43 AM
<br>> To: Squeak Mailing List
<br>> Subject: [Enhancement] Skins updated
<br>>
<br>> I'm still tinkering around with "skins" for Morphic. Check
out this link
<br>> <a href="http://w3.one.net/~swessels/squeak/mine/example-screen-shot-of-skins.jpg">http://w3.one.net/~swessels/squeak/mine/example-screen-shot-of-skins.jpg</a>
<br>> for a picture of my latest efforts. The instructions and download
kit can
<br>> be
<br>> found at <a href="http://w3.one.net/~swessels/squeak/skins.htm">http://w3.one.net/~swessels/squeak/skins.htm</a>
<br>>
<br>> There's still some refactoring required (when is that not true?)
and I'd
<br>> like to
<br>> get some kind of import tool working to use predefined skins available
on
<br>> the
<br>> Internet.
<br>>
<br>> This set of code works with V2.8a and the latest set of updates.
I have
<br>> not
<br>> tried it with earlier versions.
<br>>
<br>> Hope this gives someone some great creative ideas...
<br>>
<br>> - Steve</blockquote>
</html>